Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Case Studies: Influenza and HIV
Stop infection spread. Pupils participate in an activity to model infections and replications of viruses. Within the activity, scholars see that viruses may end up with genetic variation and connect that to how some forms of the flu are...
Curated OER
Centers of the Storm: The Lyceum and the Circle at the University of Mississippi
Greek Revival architecture and the Civil Rights Movement? Sure! Examine how the Lyceum and Circle, two historic buildings located on the campus of the University of Mississippi, relate to integration and the 1962 riot on the university...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency Not to Be Excused"
High schoolers examine slavery in the revolutionary and colonial eras of the United States. In this slavery lesson, students investigate the presence of slavery in early America, the language of the Constitution, and the intent of the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Lesson 3: Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Pupils explore the role religion played in the American Revolutionary War. Using primary documents and writing exercises, high schoolers understand how religion was used in support of the war efforts and how specific religious groups...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Lesson 2: The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
Pupils research and discuss the provisions in the Constitution that supported the arguments for and against the Sedition Act. They articulate objections to and arguments in favor of the Sedition Act.
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Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: Creating and Using Outlines [Pdf]
This is the three-page PDF The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines." It explains and provides examples of what to do before starting the outline, working thesis, defining purpose, the types of outlines, creating the...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Academic and Professional Writing
The section on Common Types of Writing Assignments is a particularly helpful piece of this site. Learn how to approach a wide variety of writing tasks from lab reports to literary reviews. Then use the rest of the site to learn how to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Composition: Types of Writing Instruction
This lesson focuses on the four types of writing: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive including definition and characteristics of each and an interactive activity over they types. It also provides links to more information...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Types of Writing: Review
This lesson is a review of the unit on types of writing including purpose, audience, tone, the writing process, the four types of writing, and sentence fragments and run-ons. A quiz is provided.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Literature and Composition: Descriptive Writing
This lesson focuses on descriptive writing including discussing what it is and the chararacteristics. It provides links to the web articles: "How to Write a Descriptive Essay," "5 Model Descriptive Paragraphs," "MLA Formatting and Style...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Types of Writing: Expository and Persuasive
This lesson introduces two types of writing: expository and persuasive. It defines and provides examples of each kind. It offers links to MLA Formatting and Style Guide and sample papers of opinion and exository essays.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar and Writing: Introduction
This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and writing. It focuses on reviewing parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, parallel structure, and properly formating writing assignments using MLA guidelines. The essential questions focus...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Introduction
This is an introduction to a Grammar and Writing unit. It focuses on a review of dependent and independent clauses, writing concise sentences, avoiding passive voice, formatting writing assignments, documenting sources using MLA...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Arbiter
Determine your standards (logic, creativity, structure, etc.) when assessing student writing. Evaluate three essays using an analytic or holistic rubric and see how your standards compare with your peers.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Lit and Comp: Types of Writing: The Writing Process
This lesson focuses on the writing process including understanding purpose, audience, and tone and the parts of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
Other
Lumen Learning: Memorandums
This site discusses the purpose and format of a memo and helps understand effective strategies for business memos.
Harvard University
Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)
You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Polishing Tone, Style, and Vocabulary in Your Essay
Learn revision strategies you can use to polish your essay's style, tone, and vocabulary. W.11-12.1d Tone/Style, W.11-12.1e Tone/Style
Other
Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Use of Stylistic and Rhetorical Devices
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Audience, Tone, and Style in Informative Text
Students will read samples of informative writing and highlight examples of how tone and style are used by the authors. Students will then apply this knowledge by writing their own informative text. Multiple examples of student work and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Use of Stylistic a Rhetorical Details
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we read....